REGIONAL AND HEGEMONIC IMAGE OF THE UNITED STATES: ANALYSIS OF TURKISH AND FOREIGN STUDENTS’ US PERCEPTION THROUGH TWO MOVIES
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The aim of this study is to understand
and explain how the US instrumentalizes and perceives cinema for its own
hegemonic policies. The scope of our study is limited to dichotomical
comparisons which have an important place in the hegemonic policies of USA. Our
work is a qualitative one and is based around two Hollywood films. In this
context, interviews and focus group interviews were conducted with Turkish and
foreign, Muslim and Christian students and their opinions about two Hollywood
productions were analyzed and the data obtained were analyzed within the
framework of descriptive analysis and thematic analysis methods. The data
obtained from the students participating in the study give an idea of how
educated young people evaluate, perceive and use the relationship between
cinema films and the global hegemony of the USA. In this sense, the results of
our study, the use of cinemanion in the presentation of the United States and
how the situation is perceived and understood by young people from different
regions, countries, religions and ethnicities is trying to make a valuable contribution
to the global and hegemonic policies that have been rarely seen in Turkish
literature.
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Ayrıntılar
| Birincil Dil | İngilizce |
|---|---|
| Bölüm | Makaleler |
| Yazarlar | |
| Yayımlanma Tarihi | 30 Haziran 2020 |
| Kabul Tarihi | 21 Şubat 2020 |
| Yayımlandığı Sayı | Yıl 2020 Cilt: 11 Sayı: 21 |
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